Awfulness Quotes
19 quotes by 17 authors
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It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.
— Louise Doughty
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I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I…
— Susan Hayward
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All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly.…
— Patrick Warburton
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I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother…
— Lynda Barry
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A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature…
— Augustus William Hare
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After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you everywhere…. For us what was…
— Elizabeth McCracken
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Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?
— Peter De Vries
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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not…
— Desmond Tutu
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Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have…
— Marisha Pessl
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This boy has negative charisma. He walks into a room and the oxygen starts to evaporate. I guess that's why girls sleep with him. They…
— Emma Forrest
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I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to…
— Sarah Waters
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. . .only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other…
— John Boyne
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It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for…
— Herman Melville
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His eyes were frighteningly alive, the curve of his mouth savage and pleased. It suddenly didn't seem at all surprising that he should be able…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the…
— Desmond Tutu
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A person would never wish for tragedy, but there can be a kind of transformation that results. There is an awfulness to it, but also…
— Terry Tracy
Who Wrote These Awfulness Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 19 Awfulness Quotes as follows: